House bill · 117th Congress · Public Law 117-195
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 170 Manhattan Avenue in Buffalo, New York, as the "Indiana Hunt-Martin Post Office Building".
Became law on Oct 11, 2022.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 23, 2021
- Committee actionFeb 2, 2022
- Passed HouseFeb 28, 2022 · by voice vote
- Passed SenateSep 20, 2022 · by unanimous consent
- To the PresidentOct 4, 2022
- Became lawOct 11, 2022
Latest action: Oct 11, 2022 — Became Public Law No: 117-195.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2142.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2142, an act to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 170 Manhattan Avenue in Buffalo, New York, as the “Indiana Hunt-Martin Post Office Building” on August 23, 2022. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on June 8, 2022”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 23, 2022 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58391
- CBO publication date
- August 23, 2022
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2142, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/2142
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HIGGINS of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 54, March 23, 2021, Page H1621):Article I, Section 8, clause 7Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 23, 2021 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 30 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2142, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/2142
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
27 cosponsors — 8 Republicans, 19 Democrats
8 of 27 cosponsors (30%) are from the other party.
Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Antonio Delgado (D-NY), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Chris Jacobs (R-NY), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Mondaire Jones (D-NY), John Katko (R-NY), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Sean Maloney (D-NY), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Grace Meng (D-NY), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Joseph Morelle (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Tom Reed (R-NY), Kathleen Rice (D-NY), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Thomas Suozzi (D-NY), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY), Lee Zeldin (R-NY).
More from the sponsor
Other 117th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Brian Higgins.
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- H.R. 2143 (117th) Neighborhood Homes Investment Act
- H.R. 2144 (117th) Access to Genetic Counselor Services Act of 2021
- H.R. 4385 (117th) Cancer Drug Parity Act of 2021
- H.R. 2881 (117th) Medicare Buy-In and Health Care Stabilization Act of 2021
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 16, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.